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A mobile blogger can directly edit blog articles on kinds of mobile devices at any place where has wireless signals.<br />

Furthermore, if the W/H devices support the Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS), mobile bloggers can also post<br />

multimedia files such as images, video, or audio files to their blogs. It should be noted that if mobile bloggers want<br />

to post blog articles with multimedia files, they must use MMS to send the edited messages to a special number that<br />

is assigned from an Internet Service Provider (ISP) and connected to an Integrated Messaging Service Platform<br />

(IMSP) server which deals with message services such as Short Message Service (SMS) and MMS. This particular<br />

server is often managed by an ISP. In order to retrieve the messages from an IMSP server, we developed an<br />

application called IMSP Decoder which is able to decode messages composed of text, images, and 3GP files, as<br />

shown in Figure 5. After pressing the button “Import IMSP”, the decoder executes and then gets messages from the<br />

IMSP server continuously. The content of the messages are shown in the decoder, including the date, source, ID,<br />

original text, image, and 3gp files. Meanwhile, when our system receives a message, it is recorded in a log file so<br />

that the further analysis would be dealt with. After the IMSP Decoder decodes the messages, related information will<br />

be stockpiled in the blog server and then the blog articles will be published automatically. Figure 6 shows the process<br />

of publishing blog articles using personal mobile devices.<br />

Figure 5. IMSP decoder with test data<br />

Figure 6. The process of publishing a blog article<br />

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